The Cognitive Grammar analysis of English nominal quantifiers is re-examined in light of recent theoretical developments: the characterization of grammar as the implementation of semantic functions; and the recognition of strata — baseline and levels of elaboration — as a dimension of structural and systemic organization. For relative quantifiers, which pertain to degree of universality, the grounding function is primary. While absolute quantifiers are primarily adjectival, they assume the function of nominal grounding when initial. This elaboration via functional reorganization eliminates the need for a zero grounding element. Functional reorganization is a key factor in the grammaticization of absolute quantifiers from complex quantifying expressions.
2023. Structural Assemblies and Semantics of the Four Existential Constructions with Relative Clause. In Specificational and Presentational There-Clefts, ► pp. 75 ff.
2023. Determiners of Existent NPs in the Four Existential Constructions with Relative Clause. In Specificational and Presentational There-Clefts, ► pp. 123 ff.
2023. Different Antecedent–Relative Clause Relations. In Specificational and Presentational There-Clefts, ► pp. 55 ff.
Kratochvílová, Dana
2023. Epistemic modality and grounding: constructions expressing positive epistemic judgement in Spanish and Italian from the perspective of cognitive grammar (with particular reference to the verbs credere and creer). Probus 35:2 ► pp. 327 ff.
Davidse, Kristin, An Van linden & Lieselotte Brems
2022. A semiotic approach to grammaticalization: modelling representational and interpersonal modality expressed by verbonominal patterns. Language Sciences 91 ► pp. 101473 ff.
2020. Layers of (un)boundedness: The aspectual–quantificational interplay of quantifiers and partitive case in Finnish object arguments. Linguistics 58:3 ► pp. 905 ff.
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